Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Marilyn Sipes Is mere possession of a date rape drug harmless? No, Judge Amy correctly decides. The...

SANTA ANA - A Fullerton man has filed a lawsuit against the Black Angus restaurant in his city, claiming that he noticed a con...

Practitioner: Tort Law By Paul D. Fogel and Lisa M. Baird One of the established cornerstones of premises-liability law is tha...

SAN DIEGO - After years of allowing Christian invocations that apparently violated constitutional principles, the Oceanside Ci...

By Thomas D. Elias The longer California politicians at every level contemplate the $25 billion coming to this state from the ...

SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles judge Thursday granted a request by Orange County lawyers to impose a temporary stay on a portion of...

Practitioner: Tort Law By Steven G. Mehta As more and more incidents of elder abuse get reported, there appears to be a genera...

SPECIAL ISSUE: DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE By Julie Campanini Do jurors decide who should win a case based on the opening statement...

SAN DIEGO - In a lawsuit laden with accusations of political obstacles thrown up by the Clinton administration and Gov. Gray D...

City Attorney James K. Hahn's office this week identified an additional 57 misdemeanor cases involving Los Angeles Police Depa...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday tossed out another five felony cases tainted by Rampart-style police law breaking,...

Kira Alexsis Murphy's life ended tragically Dec. 11, three weeks after her first birthday. Her mother, Jill Ann Alto, placed h...

A $20 million civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of a Guatemalan man who ...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge W. James (Jim) Turpit died Wednesday at his home in Corona del Mar. He was 85. Raised...

Former labor law attorney Alfred M. Klein died Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 87. In the late 1940s, Klein, along wi...

Love has hit the Los Angeles legal community, and it's not a pretty sight. A quick spot-survey by the Daily Journal found that...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping may be punished more severely if it increases the r...

WASHINGTON - The criminal justice system, at every level and at every step along the way, treats blacks and Hispanics more sev...

Following a lengthy investigation, state officials have taken legal action to revoke the license of a Santa Barbara County fos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding fair use protection for advertising display of a competitor's copyrighted work, a federal appellate ...

Where some see the impending Southland dot-com shake-up as a tragedy of epic proportions, Sidley & Austin's litigation hea...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Michael M. Berger Utility Takings Facial Challenge to Mandatory Power-line Access Not Ripe ...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Arthur F. Coon and Douglas M. Smith Most commercial general-liability insurance policies pr...

Craig de Recat, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has received this year's Trial Lawyer of the Year award from Loyol...

A former software technician for Legasys Systems Inc. has sued the legal software manufacturer and its president, claiming sex...

When Leo R.B. Henrikson, a veteran lawyer and real estate investor, took up running in his 60s, he didn't plan on just jogging...

By Edward C. Stark Many people believe that the California Bar Exam is unfair, biased, capriciously graded and intended to lim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Punk rock went on trial Tuesday, as the former members of the 1980s band Dead Kennedys appeared in a San Franc...

Those attending Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' "monthly press availability" on Wednesday emerged splattered with s...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has earned the District Attorney of the Year award from national c...